ERWIN WURM
NARROW HOUSE

LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, PALAZZO CAVALLI FRANCHETTI, VENICE, ITALY
4 JUNE – 27 NOVEMBER 2011

NARROW HOUSE, 2010
Mixed media
7 x 1,3 x 16 m

© Images Studio Erwin Wurm, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011

FEATURED ARTIST

ERWIN WURM

Erwin Wurm (b. 1954 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria) lives and works in Vienna. His oeuvre comprises sculptures, photography, video, performance, and painting. His works often involve everyday objects such as cars, houses, clothing, luxury bags, and food products, with which he ironically comments on consumerism and capitalist mass production. Wurm gained widespread popularity in the 1990s with his “One Minute Sculptures”. Museum pedestals are displayed and left devoid of any work, so that the audience can take the place of the sculpture for one minute, according to the artist’s whimsical instructions. With this ironic yet radical gesture, Wu...
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